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Job DescriptionCentral de Cooperativas Agrarias Cafetaleras COCLA was founded in 1967; They are located on La Convention valley famous to provide goods to Inca empire They are looking to expand their market opportunities to increase their profits and recover position of past decades. COCLA is a second:tier cooperative with 20 small farmers cooperatives as members. COCLAs members group around 1034 farmers. COCLA has 15 permanent and 11 temporal employees. 9 employees are women. COCLA aims to contribute to La Convention community economic development by commercializing crops from small farmers from La Convencion Valley. They produce coffee and cacao beans, COCLA facilitates their members market access and giving them inclusive opportunities toparticipate on national and international markets.COCLA produces cacao paste and 72 cacao tablets with success and would like to improve cost efficiently their assortment of manufacture products to increase their profits and their members benefits. They use the following cacao varieties:CCN51, Cacao Chuncho (Peruvian native variety) and Hybrid clon from Chuncho (Peruvian native variety) and CCN for their production. They use a toaster, holler, refiner, and conch to produce their products. COCLA has a chocolate expert with more than 5 years of experience developing chocolate tablets and a year on the production of other chocolates that would like assistance to improve chocolate fillings and determine best molds for their tablets